HONDURAS
CASE No. HOND/02 - MIGUEL ANGEL PAVÓN SALAZAR |
Resolution adopted by consensus by the IPU Governing Council at its 178th session (Nairobi, 12 May 2006)
The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Referring to the case of Mr. Miguel Angel Pavón Salazar of Honduras, as outlined in the report of the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians (CL/178/12(b)-R.1), and to the resolution adopted at its 177th session (October 2005),
Recalling the following: After the investigation into Mr. Pavón's murder in January 1988 had come to a standstill, the investigation was reopened in 1996, and led to the identification of two suspects, both military officers. While one of the suspects died during Hurricane Mitch in 1998, the second, Mr. Jaime Rosales, was apprehended in the United States of America and extradited to Honduras, where he stood trial and was acquitted on 22 March 2004. The Attorney General's Office appealed against that decision, and the Court of Appeal quashed the acquittal of Mr. Rosales on 25 February 2005, referring the case back to the court of first instance. At his retrial on 11 April 2005, the court of first instance once again acquitted Mr. Rosales. The Attorney General's Office lodged an appeal and, on 23 May 2005, presented its arguments before the court of appeal,
- Notes that no information about the outcome of the prosecution’s appeal has been forwarded;
- Requests the Secretary General to continue seeking this information from the authorities and the sources, and requests the Committee to report to it at its next session, to be held during the 115th IPU Assembly (October 2006).
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